Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal Knowledge. Digested under the following Heads: I. Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetick, taught without the Help of a Master. II. The Compleat Market-Woman. III. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl and Fish. IV. For Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. V. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. VI. The Art and Terms of Carving Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. Vii. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner, Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. Viii. The Young Woman's Instructor for the right Spelling of Words used in Marketting, Cookery, Pickling, Preserving, &c. &c. &c. To this edition are added, some plain and necessary directions to maid-servants in general, and several useful tables: Which renders it the Completest Book of the Kind ever published. The Compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this Book come as cheap as possible to the Purchasers, has, out of her Benevolence, fixed the Price at 1 s. 6 d. Bound; though it contains double the Quantity that is usually sold for that Sum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Mary, fl. 1753.

Standardized Title:

Young woman's companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197,[19]p. )

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Other Title:

Madam Johnson's present

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Notes:

The final nine leaves contain a spelling list, a contents list and a final advertisement leaf.

First published as 'Young woman's companion'.

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: Price sewed, 1 s. 3 d. Bound 1 s. 6 d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Alston, IV.614

English Short Title Catalog, T122631.

OCLC:

642334614